Colonial Americans were drinking coffee long before they dumped tea into Boston Harbor or fought a war for independence. The establishments that served it were already brewing revolutionary ideas.
Around the time the United States was founded, Americans' diets included Parmesan ice cream and terrapin. But what you ate depended on your social status.
Known as the "Conscience of the Revolution" and described as perhaps the most formidable female intellectual in eighteenth-century America, Mercy Otis Warren was a poet, historian, and playwright. She believed in the Revolution and played an integral role in capturing, shaping, and moving the cause forward. Born in 1728 in Barnstable, Massachusetts, Mercy Otis was the third of thirteen children and the family’s oldest daughter. She grew up in a household where her intellectual and academic pursuits were encouraged, which was unusual for women at the time. She married James Warren, a politician, in 1754, and they had five sons. Defying custom and convention, Warren was openly political, engaging with many great figures and thinkers like…
Groundbreaking poet Phillis Wheatley is considered the first African American woman, and only the third American woman, to publish a book of poems. Wheatley was renowned for her imagination, drive, and courage. Born around 1753 in Africa, she was kidnapped at age seven and enslaved in Boston, Massachusetts, to the Wheatley family in 1761. She was named after the boat that brought her to the colony, “the Phillis.” The Wheatley family educated her, and within a remarkably short period after her arrival, she had a command of the Bible, Greek and Latin classics, British Literature, astronomy and geography. A prodigy, Wheatley grew in notoriety in 1770 after she published “An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of the Celebrated George…
Fifty-six men signed the Declaration of Independence. Hear the remarkable story of each and every signer. New to the channel? Road to Liberty is our cinematic series where historic paintings come alive to tell the stories of the most important events that led from colonial unrest to American independence, from the French and Indian War and the Stamp Act, through Boston, Lexington & Concord, and the Declaration of Independence, to even beyond the decisive victory of Yorktown. Watch the Road to Liberty series here https://l.prageru.com/4lvqo1Q Celebrate America's 250th With Purpose. As our nation approaches its 250th birthday, PragerU is seizing this historic moment to educate the next generation about America’s founding, values, and…
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Books Financing the American Revolution Richard Vague’s new book provides an interesting look at the economic history of the early U.S. but fails as a biography. The Banker Who Made America: Thomas Willing and the Rise of the American Financial Aristocracy, 1731–1821 by Richard Vague. Polity. 448 pages Thomas Willing is a name that few people, even those well-versed in the history of the American Revolution, will probably recognize. Those who do will likely associate Willing with only two achievements: voting against American independence as a Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress of 1776, and serving as the head of…Open
Why did The Stamp Act happen? In 1765, Parliament taxed more than paper — it taxed an entire way of life. It didn’t just anger colonists… it united them. For the first time, Parliament imposed an internal tax on the colonies without their consent. Printers, merchants, lawyers, students, and ordinary families felt the impact immediately. Across the colonies, a single phrase spread like wildfire: “No taxation without representation.” In this episode of Road To Liberty, we explain the Stamp Act through the eyes of a Boston printer, watching as resistance grows from quiet outrage to open defiance. Crowds gather. Effigies burn. Stamped papers feed the flames. And for the first time, Americans from different colonies and social…